There are times when blind inertial following of past patterns -- such as *you* are hewing to -- turns deadly. Remember that TV clip of the car driving off the broken section of that SF bridge a few years back during a severe earthquake? The driver -- as I saw it -- had plenty of time to see that the section was gone, yet that it was *just not there anymore* didn't fit the driver's preconceived and normal view of how things should be.
So that person drove onward .... into oblivian, into a cold hard death in the bay below.
Wake up.